One word

Penumbra

Word of the day on 19 November 2009.

Winning tweet

75
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Ysabeluna
i welcome dusk's penumbra/ as sundown envelops my aura/ i dance to moonlight's sonata/

Good uses

  • lithiumzombie
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    The new Toyota Penumbra is the first solar powered car that will keep running during a partial eclipse.
  • Ysabeluna
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    i don't hide under life's penumbra of uncertainty/ i choose to chart my own destiny/
  • drchavi
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    Penumbra is like a bikini-what it reveals is interesting but what it conceals is fascinating..
  • 2tweested
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    Errant pedants, wonks, lurking in the Artwiculatan penumbra, in a fit of pique and jealousy, mark inaccurate.
  • californiakara
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    The working title for "Twilight" was Penumbra, but it wasn't dark enough.
  • SJHatzi
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    Penumbra of doubt, whisper to me - am I the dreamer or am I the dreamed?
  • Ysabeluna
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    i bask under your ~ penumbra of love, i am ~ endeared, loved, adored #haiku
  • Ysabeluna
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    my love is my true north under life's penumbra of uncertainties
  • tWordBird
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    The optimist’s silver lining ☁☼ is the pessimist’s penumbra. ☂
  • pn8r
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    Pat lurked in the penumbra of society, never quite fitting in anywhere. #artwiculate
  • tWordBird
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    Penile penumbra ? Yeah, riiight! Now you’re gonna tell me it glows in the dark & doubles as a flashlight! *eye roll*
  • Ysabeluna
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    i succumb to the ~ penumbra of loneliness ~ life's aches catharsis #haiku
  • tama001
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    The flow of the political fund to this politician is penumbra of doubt. #artwiculate
  • Ysabeluna
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    i drift - to penumbra's lulling embrace/ give in - till my consciousness efface /
  • harrarp
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    When God created light, he saw it was good. Even better, he must have thought, was that the penumbra came as a lagniappe.
  • harrarp
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    I'm just a silhouette of the man I used to be. But then again, my penumbra is larger than life.
  • Bridgehaven
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    I will not allow the penumbra of my past to cast a shadow over my future!
  • Ysabeluna
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    dad's counsel and encouragement are my penumbra, strong shield against life's adversities and strife
  • marcosarroyos
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    When my dog farts, it's so strong that it has a olfactory penumbra.
  • SJHatzi
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    Dear marker of inaccurate entries: please get a dictionary. A few words to look up: penumbra, humor, anagram, rod, up, your ...
  • osmarjardim
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    Out of sight, out of mind. Still your penumbra lingers on my retina. Love is often a blind spot.
  • Ysabeluna
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    beware of enemies that are cloaked by penumbra/ stealthy they are you'll never know what got ya!
  • dmriver
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    Penumbra is not good enough. I need full shade and a cold drink!
  • Ysabeluna
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    exposure to the world unveiled my penumbra of life's ambiguities/ cloaked me with lovely experiences and expunge my insecurities/
  • zimmerjohn
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    Apparently, Doug has secretly been studying the sun's penumbra during eclipses. I always knew he was a shady character.
  • lithiumzombie
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    "This is the police! Put your hands in the air and walk away from the umbra, into the penumbra!" / "The WHAT?!" / "Shade."
  • kado56
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    I suffer from a penumbra disorder but I am a bit fuzzy about what that means
  • chrisdetar
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    Tito was always deepest in Michael's penumbra. Or was it that other brother, you know, that Jackson kid.
  • marcosarroyos
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    Having lived all of his 45 years in his father's penumbra, Lee knocked his old man on his ass to shorten the shadow.
  • Ysabeluna
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    ♫sing out d sweltering heat/ ♫under my penumbra ♫ / umbra♫ umbra♫ /ah♫ ah♫/ under rihanna's umbrella♫/ella♫ ella♫ / eh♫ eh♫ eh♫/
  • Ysabeluna
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    @phocks get out of the penumbra of anxiety, irritability, impatience, insomnia, fatigue, frustration,despair - regain your equanimity...
  • TriDiaStar
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    @artwiculate Everything we do, think, say, "twit" and "artwiculate" is a penumbra of our soul.
  • hotdng
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    @Artwiculate Penny's penumbra of conceit/ of acts full of deceit / her guilt replete/ not repent yet still repeat/
  • lithiumzombie
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    The Penumbra: the bra for big girls... really big!
  • goldenskye
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    Beyond this present darkness there is a penumbra, where shadow and light mix; a place of comfort, warmth and hope.
  • Tralala56
    35
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    Alzheimers - when something lurks in the penumbra of your consciousness.
  • tama001
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    Adolescence... / The penumbra from a boys to an adult / Fleeting moment in life #haiku #artwiculate
  • browningshane
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    Providing a perspicacious presentation of the word penumbra prevents a penultimate portion of points....probably.
  • lexiconehead
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    One ton penumbra....I feel a one ton penumbra... or maybe it's just mondegreenhouse gas
  • harrarp
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    As kids we had to share mother's penumbra. Father used a flashlight to cut it into equal portions.
  • StarOfSavannah
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    Don't stare into the sun!/ Now partially blind/ (deaf and dumb?)/ Total eclipse of the heart?/ Read: penumbra of lust
  • SJHatzi
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    No matter where I am, no one thinks of me as being from there. Living -for so long- in the penumbra of the world.
  • marcosarroyos
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    Fidel Castro's shadow covers the entire island of Cuba, and the penumbra covers the entire United States.
  • pranavmukul
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    Penumbra: The eclipse's Stigma.
  • pranavmukul
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    My best friend was my penumbra ,until the sun went down!
  • tWordBird
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    Is it light? Is it shadow? Ah, the conundrum of the penumbra .
  • spacedlawyer
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    I love the penumbra at the edge of the night, the disappearing territory just outside the range of urban lighting, where wild dreams roam.
  • osmarjardim
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    Sir, you're stepping on my penumbra.
  • SJHatzi
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    Sometimes the penumbra of what we covet blinds us from recognizing what we have.

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